Process and system for identifying damage

Abstract

A process and system to provide damage identification and assessment of damage to a geographic area may include acquiring imagery data of a geographic area, processing the imagery data using wavelet transformation to identify damage to the geographic area and outputting a map showing damage condition of the geographic area. Processing the imagery data may use wavelet transformation that outputs wavelet transformation images. Damage categories for at least one location in the imagery data may be provided using discriminant analysis applied to the wavelet transformation images. The outputted maps and damage categories may be used to assess damage to areas affected by catastrophic-like events such as, e.g., hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes and the like. This process is faster and may be more accurate than current assessment techniques thereby permitting quick responses to catastrophic-like events.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

[0001] This application claims benefit and priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 734,685 filed on Dec. 7, 2012, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety, including Appendices and Attachments.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0002] 1.0 Field of the Disclosure

[0003] The present disclosure relates to a process, computer program product and system of image processing to identify, map and / or classify damage of geographic areas and, more particularly, the present disclosure relates to a process, computer program product and system of image processing using wavelet transformation to identify, map and / or classify damage of geographic areas, such as damage caused by, e.g., earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and the like.

[0004] 2.0 Related Art

[0005] Hurricanes on average make landfall on U.S. soil 1.2 (for El Niño years) to 2.1 times per year (for La Niña years) resulting in normalized mean damage of $7.7 (El Niñ...

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